Reply #18: It's time WE started using THEM, instead of the other way around.

[No Exit]

Okay, so as soon as I realized we were going into a needless, fraudulent, war in Iraq, I could no longer support Bush. Yes, I had even voted for this piece of crap in 2000!! Yes, I was even stupid enough to have voted almost always republican before that!!

So naturally, I became a Kerry supporter. (Although there were many on websites who tried to persuade me to vote 3rd party, I just felt that the 3rd party candidates didn't have a chance. I wish that were not the case, but it was.)

So I didn't just wake up one day and embrace the exact opposite position on each issue, opposite to the one I'd previously supported. No--I began reading what Kerry supporters had to say. I began to see that (in my opinion) these democrats were a whole lot more what I considered "American" than were the republican voters. I now have a new worldview, a sort of hybrid of what I used to be, and what I am now. Generally speaking, it leans towards the left now. But I still have a few views in common with republican voters. Just a few (but NONE relating the Bush.)

Anyway, when I first rejected Bush, I knew I'd have to vote for Kerry, and my first thought was, "If he turns out to be bad, he'll at LEAST be a first-term president who'll have to not be too bad, b/c he'll worry about re-election for the first 4 years." IOW, I was "using" Kerry.

Later, I came to see that Kerry, with all his flaws, is worlds better than Bush. But that's somewhat faint praise, I guess, since so many other politicians are also worlds better than this demented, vengeful, warmongering, murdering fucktard Bush.

Let's "use" the politicians. Let's not be afraid to use them and then to abandon them if they no longer work for us. C'mon, they deserve it. In return for being used by us, they get to be queen for a day or whatever.